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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Amanda and Ziller immediately feel about each other at first sight?
(a) Familiarity.
(b) Repulsion.
(c) Attraction.
(d) Confusion.

2. What instrument does Ziller play as Amanda sings during their first meeting?
(a) Horn.
(b) Drums.
(c) Flute.
(d) Piano.

3. After his discharge from the military, what vocation did Plucky explore?
(a) Smuggler.
(b) Pimp.
(c) Drug dealer.
(d) Undercover police work.

4. In what state are the Zillers traveling after they leave the circus?
(a) Nevada.
(b) Washington.
(c) Oregon.
(d) California.

5. What comprises John Paul Ziller's normal attire?
(a) Shaman's headdress.
(b) Bone armor.
(c) Loin cloth.
(d) Cut off blue jeans.

6. What story does Plucky tell the rednecks to appease their anger at the circus folk?
(a) His best game.
(b) His travels.
(c) His fall from football grace.
(d) His time in prison.

7. Calming Amanda's fears about his temperament, what reason does John Paul cite for his detachment as they restore their new home after the disbanding of the circus?
(a) He is afraid Mon Cul is homesick.
(b) He had a bad dream about Amanda's unborn child.
(c) He has not heard from Plucky in a long time.
(d) He is worried that Baby Thor does not care for him as a father.

8. What does Marx admit about his impressions of the Zillers in his journal?
(a) He is afraid of Amanda.
(b) He dislikes John Paul.
(c) He is unable to be objective about them.
(d) He finds them to be too strange to not be repulsed.

9. What is significant about Marx Marvelous's introduction to John Paul and Amanda?
(a) He proposes to Amanda immediately.
(b) He had been counting on them to post bail.
(c) He tells them he is worried about Mon Cul.
(d) He claims to be an old friend of Plucky's.

10. With whom does Mon Cul travel when the circus prepares to move?
(a) Baby Thor.
(b) Plucky.
(c) John Paul.
(d) Amanda.

11. What concerns Amanda about John Paul's quiet anxiety as they restore their new home?
(a) She is afraid that he will grow bored with being a husband and a father.
(b) She is afraid he regrets being married to her.
(c) She is afraid he is still in love with his first wife.
(d) She is afraid he regrets turning down the opportunity to go to Tibet.

12. What did Marx previously conclude about Christianity, prior to his employment by the Zillers?
(a) The religion is dying.
(b) People have abandoned the religion to the zealots.
(c) The religion understands the world.
(d) The religion is too timid.

13. In the different time frame, how does Amanda spend a great deal of her time, according to the narrator?
(a) Hospitalized.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Yoga.
(d) Trances.

14. What possession that belongs to the magician is found in Miami at the beginning of this novel?
(a) Car.
(b) Cape.
(c) Hat.
(d) Suitcase.

15. How did Plucky manage to end his college football career?
(a) He ran off with the coach's wife.
(b) He dealt marijuana to his teammates.
(c) He refused to play dirty.
(d) He injured his knee.

Short Answer Questions

1. What solution does Amanda come up with in regards to their animal-less zoo?

2. What plants does John Paul bring Amanda in the hospital?

3. Where is the mysterious symbol on Amanda's body?

4. With what insect is Marx Marvelous fascinated on a scientific level?

5. Why did Amanda try to orchestrate a mass-smuggling of butterfly larva into the U.S.?

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